5-year-old shot in his front yard

9:59 AM,
Feb. 28, 2014

Officer Greig LeBlanc of the Opelousas Police Department inspects a handgun that was found at the scene of a shooting that occurred around 4:20 p.m. Thursday on Martin Luther King Drive near Railroad Avenue.

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Zane Hill
Gannett Louisiana

A 5-year-old Opelousas boy suffered life-threatening injuries in an early evening shooting Thursday.

Events surrounding the incident, which happened at about 4:20 p.m., were not immediately clear. Police said they were initially told it was a drive-by shooting, but that appeared to be an erroneous account later in the investigation.

The boy suffered a single gunshot wound to his head in the front yard of his home in the 500 block of Martin Luther King Drive, just down the street from North Elementary School. ...